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[DISCUSS] Pros/cons of videos for technical documentation? (lemmy.ml)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by to c/programming@programming.dev
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/3560540

You probably have already noticed that nowadays it's becoming fashionable online to share technical material via videos (eg YouTube.)

I somehow can understand the appeal of creating videos for sharing thoughts/news, esp b/c it takes way less time and focus compared to writing things (just hit the record button and go.)

But videos are. ๐Ÿ‘Ž not index-able (at least locally)
๐Ÿ‘Ž not searchable. ๐Ÿ‘Ž not copy-paste friendly if at all. ๐Ÿ‘Ž impossible to skim through.
๐Ÿ‘Ž a major distraction from the train of thoughts.

IMO, in most cases, the more effective and impactful medium of technical comms is the written form: a Mastodon toot, a blog post, a gist, a Pastebin entry or even a Facebook post!

What are your thoughts?

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[โ€“] 3 points 2 years ago

Unfortunately, trends are trends. I wonder if we can get people to use the open source live captions application that futo sponsored recently. At very least we can get reasonably high quality captions, as well as a full transcript automatically generated with each video. Live captions is done with a locally running AI so you don't have to reach out to any third parties or share data to use it.

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